Forgive

'Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with eaach other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.' Colossians 3:12-14 (NIV).

I guess it is part of human nature to hang onto something so tightly that sometimes we don't realise that we would be so much more relieved and at peace once we let go. Often we would say it is difficult to forgive him/her . Even if we do, we might not treat her the same way ever again. The relationship that we once share is shattered. I don't know if you have went through that phase but I can honestly tell you I do. We are so conformed into the earthly matter to say or even think of that. How can we say that when we are continuously forgiven by God? How can we say that when everytime we ask for forgiveness, we think we are even again and is pure again in God's eyes? How can we say that when we ask favors from God after a repentance prayer?

The answer is we cannot. Everytime we ask for forgiveness, the Lord forgives us. Everytime we pray, God listens to us no matter how many time we have fallen short of His glory. Everytime we repent, God bless us.

So why can't we do the same as what the Lord God has done for us? We are all His people and we ought to treat everyone the same. When they ask for forgiveness, shouldn't we just forgive them and take them back again? When we love God, the love will also outflow from within us and that would help us to forgive the other party no matter what he/she has done. Atleast for one thing for sure, what they have done will not be as bad as what we have done to cost Jesus's life on the cross. If we are forgiven for that, nothing in this world that we should/can say we cannot forgive.

It is our ego that we are not willing to forgive. It is not about the severity of their wrong doings.